we all need money. and it's hard to figure out who really needs it and who's just scamming.

Wish there was a blockchain thing that could solve this. Like one that's able to weed out the scammers from the beggars.

Yet another thread that's not being deleted about altcoins dying or crashing, or crashing and dying, or crashing, burning, then dying...

Bitcointalk is getting redundant sometimes.

To put it bluntly, you need to be more specific. Is bitcoin cash dying? No. Is Bitconnect dying? Yes.

That's like if crypto were programs vs. apps, and you asked, "Are programs dying!?!?"

That's it. FB is heading down the drain fast.

I was saying on reddit that FB was around for lke a decade or so, and in internet terms that's almost three decades.

They had a really good run. No need for Zuck and his peeps to try to hang on to a sinking ship. They made billions. Just exit.

I've never run a super successful company like that (who has?) but I can't understand why they don't want to just drop ship. Like, how much money could you really need in this life that you'd stress over that much just to save a company that's already made you that much money?

But then again, without FB, I'm not sure where people will flock to. Twitter and IG are probably the most popular social media after FB, but they're only good for flash updates and pictures. FB was the "wholesome" social media that had the profile pic, bio, everything like that.

WILL MYSPACE STEP IT UP? XD

Pretty sure they don't ask you for your income bracket when you shop on Steam with fiat............

So is this supposed to be new FUD? They're starting to monitor how much crypto people have... is that why KYC is happening on exchanges now?

Sigh this is bad news.

Probalby will start some FUD, and we'll see another crashing in price as people try to veer away from exchanges.

That's why decentralized exchanges are going to pump in coin price.

Because you already know that KYC for exchanges leads to the banning of US customers. Just like how US people can't participate in ICOs unless they're certified... soon exchanges will have to do the same *sigh*

Decentralized exchanges are where it's at. We should really take a look at which decentralized exchange is making the top popularity. That's the one we should all flock to.

It's gonna get bigger. Binance is becoming one of the top exchanges, if it isn't already.

So BNB's price can only become higher.

That's not true, man. People used to do that, but then the government got smart about it and that's why they banned megaupload and other file2sharing sites. I think I heard that piratebay got closed down too.

Point is, there's always a crackdown after a matter of time.

And it's even moreso if it's your personal info, like if someone has inappropriate pics of you and they post it online, you can get a court-order and it WILL be taken down.

Sure, people can re-upload to a new site.. but the point is, that new site will eventually be taken down.

But no one can enforce anything on the bitcoin blockchain, and that's why it's scary.

They're only banning ads.

They didn't ban like tweeting or posting or making pages about crypto. They'll probably ban ICOs though :/ so be careful.

People hate whales when they sell and crash the market.

People love whales when they buy and pump the market.

Circle of life. sings a whale song

I think merit will continue to exist... but I'm not sure for how long.
people who deserve to rank up aren't ranking up because sMerits aren't being fairly awarded. notice they only give sMerits to each other, like some kind of circleshake. Legendaries only give merits to Legendaries, and so on and so forth. If they give merits to newbies it's only 1 and rarely at that.

i dunno but i think the merit system will be gone in a year. Like confido.

So what exactly is the big change that this hard fork is going to implement that will speed up transactions?

There are so many privacy coins out there, why is Zcash better?

Yeha man... bitcoin at $10 was such a huge bubble, that thing was definitely not going past $11, was going to fall back to $0.3. That's totes what was going to happen. These experts

I believe this is a legitimate concern. Not just for child porn people. It's for anything.

Suddenly you have a tool anyone can use to upload any kind of sensitive material that no court in the whole world can take down.

You can't censor this either because that would be against bitcoin's decentralization policy. You can't have some kidn of central police that checks files uploaded to the blockchain.

So let's say some dude wants to have revenge on his ex, he can just upload nudes of her onto the bitcoin blockchain, and suddenly no one can take it down.

I think we should just hard fork or soft fork to disallow any kind of extraneous data on the blockchain, it should just be transactions.

I'm sure a significant amount of the crypto community thinks like this. It's why it's called gambling by so many.

People throw in money they can't afford to lose, then the market crashes when their bills are due. So they end up desperate.

The only people who make it in crypto are the ones with money they can afford to tie up for years. Because they're the ones who can long-term hodl.

Wow, with 0.22% every hour... I can see this as being a huge barrier to BTC adoption by normal people.

It's probably why people resort to using hardware wallets, like Trezor, or online web wallets.

But, I guess in the same token... if Bitcoin is to be used as a banking alternative, with utmost security... then it only makes sense that high tech specs are required by someone's computer in order to integrate the "banking system" with their computer. Minimum of 150 GB lol.

I guess that means in the future you'll have a computer that's solely for bitcoin purposes, which is more secure in the long run.

I agree with the others, it's not about the nodes, but rather your computer's specs. It's 150 GB that your hard drive has to validate via processors and such. Not going to be a lightning fast process... but once it's done, you'll finally have bitcoin core running and you can make cold wallets and everything.

Thus far, anything can happen. MT. GOx was the best crypto exchange and the largest. People thought it was legit and it really was... but all it took was one (ok many) insider hacks... and suddenly it went down without allowing too many withdrawals.

I personally think Kraken, Bittrex, and Binance and Coinbase are the safest bets. Poloniex has a lot of FUD, and I'm not really sure if anyone uses it anymore when all the new coins appear on either rex or nance. And Poloniex often has server issues that screws everyone over.

But i really feel like it just takes one really good hack to take down Bittrex and Binance.

Coinbase can get hacked, but it has backing by the federal reserve, so I think it will survive. Kraken seems like a solid exchange too. Kraken was around since Mt. Gox, and has remaind strong without any hacks.